YOUR VIEW: Accept the direction the country has taken

A faction of Congress wants to take us over the "fiscal cliff." Why does anyone consider this alarming? Losing the recent presidential election to President Obama left these men sullen and resentful. Attempting to reason with them will only entrench their spiteful response to change.

The President has a choice: Give in and allow the system of checks and balances that the Framers of the Constitution instituted to be derailed by default, or stand strong and encourage the slim but growing majority of the American public that elected him to punish their childish behavior.

Neither option will be economically beneficial in the short term, but the latter will result in survival of the federal Constitutional form of Government that was created by the Framers. Until they bring themselves to accept the direction in which the country has moved, childish behavior will remain their only option.